TW: Suicide Mention
So I go in for surgery in two days. It's a procedure I honestly should have had done long ago. If all goes well, they're going to repair the hole in my gut. A part of me is very afraid, but I don't even have the right to whine. I developed this condition as a result of a past suicide attempt. I never imagined I'd be damaging my body for life. I guess the fear is natural, but the main thing on my mind right now is how little we do to actually address the problem of suicide. Suicide claims more lives than war, murder, and natural disasters combined. We should be treating it like the epidemic it is, but it gets swept under the rug because it's just too embarrassing to admit that we've all been there.